Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-29
General Oeps.
DOMESTIC.

church, is dead.
President Cleveland has accepted the
invitation to visit st. Louis.
\ coal barge was wrecked in lake Erie
saturday night and seven persons per-
ished.
An accident on the Erie railway Fri
day resulted in the death of twelve or
fifteen Italian laborers.
The governor of the Fiji Islands is in
W ~ashington. but not on a diplomatic err
rand, as has been asserted.
The last voyage of the French steamer
Champagne from Havre to New York
was the quickest on record.
The recent storm is pronounced the
most destructive which has visited New
Hampshire for nearly 20 years.
An open switch on the Baltimore &
Ohio railway, near Pittsburg, caused a
bad smashup. i~nturing eight persons.
Garrigle, the convicted Chicago boodler,
escaped Saturday evening from the Gus
tody of a sheriff in a very singular man
ner.
Lightning struck a powder mill at
otreator, H., Friday. injuring 100 persons
and damaging property to a considerable
extent.
The old house in Andover in which
Harriet Beecher stowe wrote Uncle
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night.
\ trumpet has been invented for tele-
phoning at sea, by which conversations
are said to be carried on miles apart with
10 wire.
The only two remaining children of
Prof. Honey of Yale college died on sun
ice cream.
Two Massachusetts, boys, Is and -
years of age. are under arrest at New
Haven, Conn, for several burglaries
which they confess.
The cause of sickness at a Connecticut
hotel has been shown to be the flow of
sewage into the we'll which supplied the
house with drinking water.
Mrs. Smith. the niece of Mrs. \. I.
Stewart. who is trying to break her will,
demands the removal of Judge Hilton
and two fellow executors.
Friends of President Cleveland assert
that obstacles to his denomination have
been removed, d~isgruntled Democrats
having been forced into submission.
The secretary treasurer's report,
knights of Labor of Massachusetts,
showsa loss of some $4,000 members in
that State during the present year.
The Ohio State Democratic conven-
ton held at Cleveland Friday nominated
Thomas +. Powell for governor and in
dorsed the Cleveland ad ministration.
Jennie Collins, the well-known philan-
thropist, died in Brooklins, Mass, on
Wednesday. and S%ylyanus Cobb, the nov
elist, died at Hyde Park on the same
date.
1t is reported that the Missouri Pacific
Railway company has been swindled out
of one million dollars in the purchase of
ties. Jay Gould says the loss will not be
so great.
Four persons were shot and badly
wounded the other night during a Wild
West performance in a circus at Clinton,
Iowa, ball cartridges having been used
by mistake.
jay Gould has been asked to build a
new church on the spot in the Catskills
where stood the yellow church of his
boyhood-the church where his father
was a deacon.
Gov. Bodwell of Maine has sent letters
to all the county attorneys in the State
instructing them TO see that the law
against tipping shops is enforced rigidly
and impartially.
Mr.. Powderly says his position on the
question of immigration, in brief is this:
He does not want the immigrant TO come
until he can be sure of employment with
out robbing another of it.
The interstate commission decides that
commercial travellers are not a privileged
class, and that no railway company has
the right to sell that class a mileage
ticket at a less rate than is charged the
average public.
The interstate commission has dismiss
ed the complaints made against the Fitch
burg road by a citizen of Schenectady
y. y, and also the demand of the Burton
Stock Car company, asking that the rail